Smaller families still in favour


Good boy: A grandfather talking to his grandchild inside a kindergarten in Hanoi. — AFP

After the country removed its two-child limit, pharmacy worker Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nga says she still has no plans to have more kids, since she barely has time to see her daughters or the money to provide them a good life.

The country’s communist government on Wednesday lifted a long-standing ban on families having more than two children, as it battles to reverse a declining birth rate and ease the burden of an ageing population.

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